The Heartland Institute is out with what is quite possibly its most
ill-considered publicity stunt to date: a poster ad campaign comparing a
belief in global warming to the psychology of mass murder.

The Chicago-based think tank notorious for denying the basic facts
about global warming on Thursday launched billboards in Chicago
featuring the likes of Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) and
convicted murderer and cult leader Charles Manson, saying these
notorious criminals "still believe in global warming" and asking viewers
if they do, too.

A fascinating study just published in Psychological Science has found that solving problems in a foreign language reduces cognitive biases.

Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would
in your native tongue? It may be intuitive that people would make the
same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the
difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less
systematic.

We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign
language reduces decision-making biases. Four experiments show that the framing effect disappears when choices are presented in a foreign tongue. Whereas people were risk averse
for gains and risk seeking for losses when choices were presented in
their native tongue, they were not influenced by this framing
manipulation in a foreign language.

Two additional experiments show that using a foreign language reduces loss aversion,
increasing the acceptance of both hypothetical and real bets with
positive expected value. We propose that these effects arise because a
foreign language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than a
native tongue does.

This could probably work on gun-rights folks if enough of them knew second languages.

Prosecutors say a Spokane police officer will not be charged for the
accidental shooting in which his 10-year-old daughter wounded herself in
the leg with his gun.

Barry O'Connell could have been charged with reckless endangerment,
but Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Brian O'Brien says there's no
evidence his actions were intentional.

KXLY reports ( http://is.gd/fVJ8hK) the 18-year veteran could still
face department discipline for failing to secure his duty weapon.

The girl went into a bedroom on Easter Sunday to look out the window
for Easter eggs when she found the gun and started playing with it.

It was the fourth child shooting this year in Washington state and the second involving a law enforcement officer's child.

It's absolutely unconscionable how they cover up for each other. The prosecutors aren't charging him because "there's no
evidence his actions were intentional." But, what in the hell does that have to do with negligence? Isn't negligence always unintentional?

via The Huffington Post
where the author bemoans the fact that political leaders are practically silent on this grave problem.

The NRA's mantra, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people," is nonsense. People with access to guns kill people.
The autobiography of charismatic educator Geoffrey Canada describes in
vivid detail how things have changed. In fact, his brilliant title
says it all: Fist Stick Knife Gun.

When I was a kid, we wrestled and maybe threw some punches when we were out of control mad. Today, we shoot someone.

What's your opinion? Has the NRA, which represents a minority of Americans, scared everyone silent? Could this turn around in Obama's second term?

A federal agent and Navy veteran was shot as he sat in his family
room, killed by a bullet that came from outside through a window.
Authorities say the bullet came from his own gun and it was fired by his
14-year-old son.

The boy called 911 to report the
shooting of his father, Special Agent Myron Chisem, 42, a five-year
veteran of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Los Angeles County
sheriff's officials said Thursday.

The son was later arrested and booked for investigation of murder. Neither the boy's name nor any possible motive was released.

"Evidence
gained from the scene and statements made by the suspect" led to the
arrest, sheriff's Lt. Holly Francisco said. The handgun used in the
shooting belonged to Chisem and it was found in the front yard, she
said.

SWAT team members have one of the most dangerous jobs there is, and
while they take every available precaution to be safe, sometimes it’s
just not enough. Riot gear and bullet-proof faceplates are helpful, but
in some situations, more is called for.

That’s where their new secret weapon comes in: the Recon Scout.
Small, lightweight, and durable, the Scout looks a bit like a dumbbell
with wheels. It features a robotic camera in the middle, and can be
thrown through a window or into a room to give SWAT members a better
view of the situation before they go in.

I thought kicking down doors and putting yourself in the line of fire was what it's all about for SWAT team members. I'll bet some of them don't like this thing at all.

This morning, I posted a
blog at the Huffington Post that looks at a horrifying incident in Georgia that somehow has escaped national attention.

On April 19, 2012, Jean and Angelica Kalonji were attempting to change
the locks on a home their son had just purchased for them when they
found themselves staring down the barrels of AR-15 assault rifles
wielded by their neighbors, Robert and Brandon Canoles.

The
Canoles suspected the Kalonjis of burglary and would not listen to them,
instead holding them forcibly at gunpoint until sheriff's deputies
arrived on the scene. When asked why he did this after the fact, Robert
Canoles said, "This is my Second Amendment right. Look, this is the
country out here, and we protect our own."

Apparently the Kalonjis—an interracial couple—weren't "his own."

It would be comforting to think this was an isolated incident. But as we
know from the slaying of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, armed
vigilantism is a phenomenon in contemporary America that is both real
and incredibly dangerous.

Would this be a good time to point out the inherent problems with the lax gun laws of Arizona? I think so. I can't wait to learn his permit status, if any.

This creep could easily be the poster child for NRA gun nuts - the individuals who are obsessed with firearms, obsessed with finding someone to shoot, obsessed with threats lurking around every corner about to getcha (because you're so appealing/good looking/rich/ important/ sexy - if only in your own mind). That would be as distinct from the sane individuals who don't feel a need or desire to go armed everywhere, who aren't afraid of imminent home invasion, who don't wet themselves over improbable heroic fantasies involving their fetish objects, and who practice sound, sane gun safety for normal firearm activities like skeet shooting or hunting where a firearm is a tool in an activity, but not an essential fetish prop to a person's core identity.J. T. Ready, who mostly personifies the National Rifle Association demographic of an old looking (he's white overweight angry guy with right to extreme right wing leanings, killed himself and four other people in Arizona. Ready was a speaker at Tea Party events, where he was embraced. Ready had also attempted to be part of Occupy events, where his participation was rejected because of his hateful and extremist views.While many on the right have tried publicly to distance themselves from the anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and racist views of the white supremacists, the reality is that the right has courted and embraced them. They have been part of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, where all four of the then running GOP presidential candidates spoke. Right wing bloggers are featured and presented with awards, including Pamela Geller who shares a number of views that she holds in common with right wing extremist mass murderer Anders Breivik in Norway, demonizing anyone who isn't white, and exclusively culturally western European. The right wing is concerned about keeping domination in the U.S. for white European-descended people, and desire to keep black, brown, and presumably Asian people in a subordinate relationship.Here are just a few of the extensive Youtube video collection about the now-late TJ Ready. He and his colleagues are far more damning than I could be about them. For those of you who don't readily recognize him in some of these clips, recalled right wing majority leader Russell Pearce was a close buddy of Pearce, including having converted him to Mormonism, and then catapulted Ready right to an important status position in the church. For those not familiar with the acronym, ADL is the Anti-Defamation League.

I could point out these guys are ignorant extremist red-necked- red-state racist, bigoted assholes, but that would be redundant.

If this piques your curiosity, wikipedia has an entry on him. This is from that entry:

He also served as president of the Mesa Community College Republican Party Club and as a precinct committeeman for the Maricopa County Republicans. In 2006, he sought a seat on the city counsel for Mesa, Arizona. He put forth as his motto that "The Purity of the Aryan Race is the most precious resource Nature has to offer All of Humankind."[2]

As the Brits would say, Ready seems to have fancied himself a superior human being. I don't see that in any aspect of him. I would worry that might offend his surviving family and friends, but he appears to have shot them all.

I would not have thought this guy had anything whatsoever to do with a college edumacation; maybe he just presided over the college Republicans, but wasn't actually a student himself. We're talking Arizona after all. Republicans, Tea Partiers, Neo-Nazis; gun nuts all, they deserve each other, but the rest of us don't.

I’m a 22-year-old woman who has never touched a gun in her life, but
obtaining a concealed weapons permit in Arizona took me little more than
a lunch break and $100.

That’s contrary to what many legislators and officials have said
about the CCW process this season, as they’ve debated several pieces of
legislation attempting to allow guns into more and more public
buildings.

Junior Seau, a 43-year old 12-time NFL Pro Bowl linebacker, was found
dead today in his home, the result of a gunshot wound, police confirmed.

Police are investigating the shooting at the Oceanside, Calif.,
residence of the former New England Patriot and San Diego Chargers
football star as a suicide. Police confirmed that Seau was found by his
girlfriend at his beachfront home with a gunshot wound to his chest.

People who attempt suicide are often temporarily insane. The lethality of a gun makes it more likely that they'll succeed. It's sad.

16-year-old Andy Stroebel was looking at a handgun around 3:45
p.m. Sunday when it discharged and a bullet struck him in the neck.

As of this morning, Stroebel has undergone a second surgery on his neck.

Stroebel and an adult friend went shooting
earlier in the day and were back at Stroebel’s house looking at his
friends handgun. There were several unloaded guns in the house
at the time, and the two had been cleaning them.

Stroebel’s friend left the area to get a
movie, and the friend had taken the ammunition out of the gun, but at
some point Stroebel put the ammunition back in.

Stroebel’s mother was in the other room at the time
the shot was fired. Stroebel was taken via Air Ambulance to a Boise-area
hospital and then was flown to a Portland-area hospital.

What's your opinion? Isn't it hard to believe that anyone with even a minimum of experience with guns could do something like this. Yet it happens every day.

38-year-old Cynthia Ann Ward, of Collierville, Tennessee, gave her
17-year-old son a 9mm Luger handgun to "play with". She also wanted him
to make sure the magazine was fully loaded for the next time she
carried the gun, loaded and hidden, in public.

The boy took the magazine out of the gun and then began joking with his
sister, pointing the gun at her. Not realizing there was still a bullet in the chamber, the boy pulled the trigger and shot his 14-year-old sister in the upper back.

The girl was taken to Regional Medical Center in Memphis where she
remains in serious condition. The mother was arrested and charged with
reckless endangerment.

First comment:

Anonymous: Umm, please correct your statements get them right before you post. I am very close with that family and the mother was never charged with anything& second the girl is 15 and he was never given the gun to 'play with' really?! Get your facts right before you blog or post about it.

Now that seems more consistent with the stories we report on every day. After all, it was only an "accident."

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Gun "Control" is an anachronism. Look at the exact
wording of the Pew question: "What do you think is more important -- to
protect the right of Americans to own guns, or to control gun
ownership?" This question uses the language of the gun lobby (rights),
not the language of those working for stronger gun laws (safety). And it
pits a right versus simply "control" for its own sake.

I don't assume nefarious motives on Pew's part. When this question
was first written, "control" was indeed part of the gun debate
vernacular. But it is no longer. Using the word "control" is a poor
description of that side's position. (While the Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence was once called Handgun Control, Inc., the group
hasn't had` "control" in its name in over ten years.)

What if there was decades of tracking of something like "what do you
think is more important -- to protect the rights of gun owners, or to
protect the safety of everyone from gun violence?" Results would, to be
sure, be different from the current question.

She makes an interesting point. The wording of surveys and polls needs to be changed to reflect the changed understanding of the word "control." To gun owners and many non-gun owners, the word has become synonymous with gun bans. Thanks to the gun-rights folks, the words "gun control" are associated with anti-rights and other un-American ideas that no one likes. This has been a planned and purposeful effort and it has achieved some success.

Assistant
Prosecutor Catherine Broderick on Monday urged the judge — who said he
expects to issue a written ruling by the end of this week — to rule that
Hopler is unfit to have firearms because he allegedly abuses alcohol,
was arrested three times between 1984 and 2003, and was taking Zoloft
for depression in October 2008 when he accidentally shot himself in the
shin while lubricating his .357-Magnum Smith & Wesson firearm.

We talked about Mr. Hopler before. My opinion is still the same, blindness is a disqualifier for owning firearms, as is negligently shooting oneself. This guy Hopler is a double loser. It should be an easy decision for the judge. We'll see soon enough.

State police say a 75-year-old upstate New
York man has been charged with fatally shooting 6 of his neighbor's
horses after they wandered onto his property.

Troopers say Lauren
McMaster likely shot the horses Saturday after they wandered onto his
land in the rural Chenango County town of New Berlin, 50 miles southeast
of Syracuse.

Police say they arrested McMaster Sunday and charged him with criminal mischief and cruelty to animals.

Troopers say McMaster used a
12-gauge shotgun to kill the horses. Police say he and the horse's
owner had a long-standing dispute over the neighbor's horses and cows
wandering onto McMaster's property.

McMaster is being held in the Chenango County Jail on $500 cash bail. It couldn't immediately be determined if he had a lawyer.

Does anyone else think it's a slap on the wrist to charge the guy like that?

Courtney Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner and Natalie
Wood, has been arrested on charges of possession. Wagner was picked up
after people reported a shooting at a home in Malibu.

When
authorities arrived at the home, they found Wagner and friend Matthew
Cox, along with several bags "of what appeared to be narcotics at the
location," sheriff's officials stated. Numerous handguns were also found
at the residence, and Cox was arrested for negligent discharge of a
weapon.

Wagner is charged with possession of narcotics but posted bond
and will remain free until her next court date.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Michael Cornell, of Jacksonville, Florida was at home Wednesday night when a bullet came flying through the wall of his home from the apartment next door. Cornell said the bullet landed on the staircase in his home just minutes after his 8-year-old daughter had been playing on the stairs.

According to Cornell, this is the second time in the past few years his neighbor has unintentionally fired a bullet into his home while cleaning his gun.
Both times Cornell called the police, and both times the police said there was nothing they could do. According to the police, "the law favors the gun owner and not those affected.

As no one was injured, the law does not allow enforcement to apprehend or cite the offender."

"These national polls should also produce more honest answers since a law-enforcement agency are not asking the questions. They imply much higher defensive use rates. Fifteen national polls, including those by organizations such as The Los Angeles Times, Gallup, and Peter Hart Research Associates imply that there are 760,000 to 3.6 million defensive uses of guns per year. Yet even if these estimates are wrong by a very large factor, they will suggest that defensive gun use is extremely common."

You can support the Mikeb302000 blog by purchasing that incredible book from Amazon by clicking the icon in the post. If you're a gun control supporter, there's irony there, if you're a gun rights fanatic, there's double irony. In either case the book is a must read.

Like an interplanetary blob that keeps managing to resurrect itself for
B-movie sequel after B-movie sequel no matter what the heroes do to
squelch it, birtherism just will not die. Birthers absolutely live to
hate President Obama; and unwilling or unable to challenge him cogently
on the issues, they instead resort to ad hominem attacks and the
malicious rumor mill: he's a "socialist" and/ or a NAZI who "pals
around with terrorists" and "can't speak without a teleprompter"; he's
the most secretive and power-mad and corrupt president in history; and
furthermore, he ain't even Amurrcan. (But of course it has nothing to do
with racism, so don't you even suggest such a thing.) And proving them
wrong only encourages them.

What's your opinion? Is there any other explanation for this nonsense other than racism=
Please leave a comment.

In an April 25 op-ed for the Daily Caller, National Rifle Association CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre took to the opinion pages to once again
deploy faulty logic to claim that the reelection of President Barack
Obama will precipitate an "all-out war on the Second Amendment."

LaPierre's primary piece of evidence concerning what he calls "the
web of lies spun about the president's phony, claimed support of the
Second Amendment," is that current Chicago mayor and former White House
chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been "tapped as the star co-chair for
Obama's re-election effort." LaPierre claims that this is "no honorary
job" but rather "real power linking Obama's re-election with Emanual's
fanaticism for destroying the Second Amendment." But if Emanuel wanted
to work with Obama to push gun bans nationwide he most certainly missed
his best chance, which would have occurred when he worked in the highest
levels of the Obama Administration.

What's your opinion? Is Wayne lying through his teeth or is he completely paranoid? I don't see a third choice. Do you?

Thirty-one people have been shot in Richmond
in April, five of them fatally. Police say that the 31 shootings in the
capital city are the most in any one month in at least years. It was the
deadliest month in Richmond since 2007.

At least nine of this month's shootings
occurred during robberies. The shooting toll does not include suicides
or accidental shootings. Law enforcement officials say April tends to be
a violent month. Since 2007, more people were shot in April on average
than in any single month.

One reason, among many, is the warmer
weather. A city prosecutor, Michael E. Hollomon, said the April
violence is in contrast to February and March, months that each
saw single-digit shooting totals.

Ya get that, it's the warmer weather. It has nothing to do with the lax gun laws and the ease with which Richmond criminals can get guns.

An accidental shooting in Knighten’s Crossroads landed one man in an area hospital Saturday, authorities said.

Two
men were hunting in full camouflage near the intersection of U.S. 278
and Roy Webb Road early Saturday when one took aim at a turkey and
peppered his partner’s face with a shotgun blast instead.

The
shooter took the victim to Gadsden Regional Medical Center where the
injured man was treated for injuries described as
“non-life-threatening,” said Matthew Wade, chief deputy for the Calhoun
County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim suffered injuries to his right arm, the left side of his neck and right eye, a sheriff’s deputy’s report states.

The
report states that the victim and the shooter “are long time hunting
buddies and have turkey hunted together on numerous occasions.”

Again with the camouflage while turkey hunting. Again with the violation of the 4 Rules of Gun Safety. What is wrong with these guys.

A toddler is dead after being shot by a 3-year-old sibling, according to Radcliff police.

Officers said they received a call about an accidental shooting about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Police said when officers arrived at the home on Keith
Ct., they found that a 13-month-old had been fatally shot by a
3-year-old.

Investigators said they believe the 3-year-old found a
pistol in the home and caused it to accidentally discharge while playing
with it.

Every day, day after day. When will it be enough? When will the biased gun-rights fanatics stop telling us these deaths are too few to worry about, to few to expect them to be inconvenienced any further? What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

An accidental shooting killed an 11-year-old boy in the 2000-block of Laverne around 2 p.m. Sunday.

According
to the Houston Police Department, several kids were playing with a gun
in an apartment when a shot was accidentally fired and the bullet
ricocheted off a balcony and hit the young victim in his shoulder.

Every day, day after day. When will it be enough? When will the biased gun-rights fanatics stop telling us these deaths are too few to worry about, to few to expect them to be inconvenienced any further?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

According to the National
Parks Conservation Association, the bill would open much of the National
Park System to hunting and recreational shooting. The group contends
that the proposed law includes “an exemption of sorts” only for units of
the National Park System specifically designated as national parks or
national monuments — such as the Blue Ridge Parkway and Carl Sandburg
Home Historic Site.

Known
as the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012, the bill’s sponsors called it a
“landmark legislative package” to protect and advance opportunities for
outdoor sportsmen across the country, according to a recent news
release from U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler’s office.

The 397 units of the National Park System include a multitude of
designations, the association argued, including national military parks
like Gettysburg, national memorials like Wright Brothers, the Gateway
Arch in St. Louis and Flight 93, national historical parks like San
Antonio Missions and Harper’s Ferry and many others.

What's your opinion? Doesn't this sound like more bullying by the gun lobby?
Please leave a comment.

Have you noticed how we stopped hearing about this? I have a theory about that. As illustrated in this video, the gun-rights advocates who made this such a big deal appear totally ridiculous. Given a year or so of distance, even they realize how foolish they were. What do you think?

Sunday, April 29, 2012

On October 4, 2001, Mr. Lewis proved, while his parents may have been connoisseurs of baby
names (or, at least, pairing first names with the family surname), that
wisdom skipped a generation. His rap sheet already included charges of
theft, burglary, drunk driving, and weapons violations. But that day,
he'd accidentally add criminal mischief and oil pollution to that list.
At roughly 2:30 in the afternoon, Daniel Carson Lewis defiled his good
name (or, what was left of it) and took five shots at the pipeline with
his rifle. One of his bullets hit a weld -- a joint where two pipe
sections had been welded together. While the pipeline is covered by a
layer of galvanized steel which is typically resistant to gunshots, the
joint was a weak point. It burst open and oil came rushing out, at the
rate of 140 gallons per minute according to the Associated Press.

In total, over six thousand barrels leaked out of the pipeline due to
Lewis's crime; roughly 4,000 of them were recovered. The damage to the
pipeline required it to be shut down for two and a half days, delaying
nearly three million barrels of oil. Two acres of tundra were damaged by
Lewis's drunken riflery. Lewis was sentenced to sixteen years in prison
and ordered to pay for the cleanup costs, totaling $17 million, which,
of course, he will almost certainly never be able to afford.

A man has been shot dead by his friend on a hunting trip in Southland today.

The man was in a group of five who were spotlighting using a vehicle
in the Cattle Flat area. He was killed instantly when one of the group
fired a shot.

"The deceased male was walking on a hillside attempting to locate a
second deer after one had been initially shot and located by the
group,'' Senior Sergeant Richard McPhail said in a statement.

It is the second hunting death in recent weeks. In March a
24-year-old Wanaka man was charged with careless use of a firearm
causing death after a late-night hunting trip with a mate turned to
tragedy. Dougal Fyfe died when he was shot in the back of the head while
out hunting with two friends in the Maungawera Valley, near Wanaka.

Emergency services were called to today's shooting just before 4am.
Police from Invercargill and Gore attended, along with a helicopter with
a paramedic onboard.

I realize that if you take all the hunters who are shot and killed by other hunters and divide by the number of stars in the galaxy, you come up with a small percentage. Nevertheless, there are too many of these "accidents."

The sad reality is too many gun owners have no knowledge of the 4 Rules of Gun Safety and too many of them lack the common sense to implement these common-sense safety protocols into their own personal gun management program.

I mean, how intelligent do you have to be to realize you shouldn't shoot at something if you're not certain of the target and what's behind it? How sharp do you need to be to realize instinctively that you shouldn't point a gun at someone or put your finger on the trigger before you're ready to fire?

Unfortunately too many lack these basic connections in the brain. They are unfit to own guns in the first place and in my opinion should lose their gun rights as soon as they demonstrate their incapacity.

The House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice, Science appropriated $12 million – more than double the
previous fiscal year – for the National Instant Criminal Background
Check System’s (NICS) fiscal year 2013 budget Thursday. The fiscal year
2012 appropriation was only $5 million.

As the House sponsor of the Fix Gun Checks Act, the bill would
strengthen the nation’s Instant Criminal Background Check System by (a)
requiring a background check for every gun sale in America and (b)
implementing a set of incentives and penalties for states to put the
names of dangerous criminals and the dangerously mentally ill into the
no-buy gun database.

What's your opinion? How can anybody object to this? I find it amazing that so many gun-rights folks do.

The
city at the north end of our cultural-technology corridor put on a
sensational fireworks display earlier this month to celebrate the 220th
anniversary of the Constitution’s 2nd Amendment being ratified.

It
was four months late, but what a meaningful way to recognize how the
National Rifle Association (NRA) and others have used that controversial
amendment. Actually, it’s not the amendment that’s controversial, it’s
the broad differences on how it should be interpreted.

I
have family members and good friends who disagree with me, but I’m one
of those who believe reasonable gun controls, in addition to being
constitutional, would be a huge plus for public safety.

You
may have noticed that the 2nd Amendment’s first two phrases focus on
the necessity of a well-regulated militia. I believe the Founding
Fathers envisioned an organized and well-regulated militia. I can’t
believe they had in mind more than 300 million people running around
with weapons ranging from small caliber revolvers to assault weapons.

That makes sense to me, how about you? If folks insist on citing the slave-owning, misogynistic demi-gods they reverently refer to as The Founders, they should at least strive to be honest about what they, The Founders, intended.

The Killers saxophonist Tommy Marth was found dead
in his back garden at his home in Las Vegas, the Guardian reports.
Marth apparently took his own life, with the Clark County coroner
recently coming on record to announce a self-inflicted gunshot wound to
the head found on the corpse when services arrived. He was 33.

Gun availability plays a major role in suicides.Using a little common sense, it's easy enough to figure how this works. Given the high lethality of a gunshot to the head, attempting suicide in this manner is more likely to succeed than using a razor or pills, which are the other most common means.

Common sense doesn't work for the pro-gun crowd, I'm afraid. They have too much bias for that. So what might work is this.

Based on the theory that many people who attempt suicide are not completely dedicated to the idea but are acting on impulse or acting out of a temporary period of difficulty, we can assume that if unsuccessful they'd be glad and never attempt it again. This was proven in a survey some years ago in which survivors of gunshot suicide attempts were interviewed. Every single one expressed gratitude for having survived the close call and expressed a desire to live.

I'm sure it was something that no one could have foreseen happening, a guy with a fetishistic love for teh gunz and delusional tendencie plus a little garden variety adequacy and anger management issues. Until he popped his cork, he was just another Citizen Soldier of the 2nd Amendment Militia.

One of the problems* faced by the CSot2ndAMis that they are diffuse and without any apparent command and control structure. They stand ready to repel the invading Obamanannybootedjackthugs, but they are in small groups. They got some waycool gunz, but nothing bigger than a .50 cal machine gun in most cases. Those A-10's that mikeb302000 posted about earlier? they're quite well suited to hunting down people that they can't see, because the 30mm cannon they carry kills anyting that it hits unless they're in a pretty hard site. And it takes more than a burst from a BMG to bring one down. That's what the hunter-killer squads of the FEMADHS will be using, fellas, not a few guyz with M-16 notmainbattleriflecarbines.

* The primary problem for many of them is that they're teh batshit KKKrazzee